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Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 01:51:06

Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet One of my favourite features added to web browsers in the last few years is text fragments. Text fragments allow you to link directly to specific text on a web page, and some browsers will highlight the linked text – for example, by scrolling to it, or adding a coloured highlight. This is useful if I’m linking to a long page that doesn’t have linkable headings – I want it to be easy for readers to find the part of the page I was looking for. Here’s

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NordVPN vs. Surfshark: See How These Sister Services Stack Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 11:00:00

James Martin/CNET NordVPN and Surfshark are two of the best virtual private network providers on the market, and while they share some similarities -- including the same parent company -- each packs unique offerings. NordVPN is our pick for the fastest VPN, based on our hands-on testing, while Surfshark earns our vote for the best value VPN. Both VPNs deliver fast speeds, user-friendly apps, handy privacy features and excellent streaming service content unblocking. Overall, I’d recommend Surfs

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Meta product chief Chris Cox says smart glasses are the future of computing

cnbc.com Jaures Yip 2025-09-23 16:58:29

Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said on Thursday that smart glasses are the future of computing devices. "We talk to them, we will see with them, we will use gestures the same way we interact with each other to interact with our computers," Cox told CNBC's Julia Boorstin. "The interfaces will get more natural, and so we certainly believe that the next really important wearable technology is going to be a pair of glasses." The $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, which were revealed on Wedne

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I changed these 5 settings on my TV to significantly improve the picture quality

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-23 16:47:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to pop

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Linking to Text Fragments with a Bookmarklet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 06:51:06

Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet One of my favourite features added to web browsers in the last few years is text fragments. Text fragments allow you to link directly to specific text on a web page, and some browsers will highlight the linked text – for example, by scrolling to it, or adding a coloured highlight. This is useful if I’m linking to a long page that doesn’t have linkable headings – I want it to be easy for readers to find the part of the page I was looking for. Here’s

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Configuration files are user interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 16:43:43

18 Sep, 2025 We have all been there. Your software keeps growing and you feel the need to make it customizable. It is too soon for a full-blown UI with all the bells and whistles, so your pragmatic instinct suggests a text-based configuration file. Yes, that’s exactly it! You rejoice knowing the software’s configuration will be trivial to version control. Your pragmatic instinct is satisfied as well; the door remains open to creating a proper UI later, since it would be merely a graphical view

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DACLab says it can remove CO2 using less electricity than many competitors

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-23 16:00:00

The world’s countries may have pledged to cut its carbon pollution, but with global emissions reaching an all-time high last year they’ve fallen far short. Digging out of that hole is going to require removing carbon straight from the atmosphere. But it comes with a hefty price tag, mostly because of the energy required. Removing one metric ton of CO 2 using direct air capture is expected to require around 2,000 kWh of electricity when the technology is sorted and scaled up. One startup called

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Flick Shot Rogues is the rare turn-based game that my brain is gelling with

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 18:30:20

Try as I might, turn-based strategy games don't usually do it for me. That's one reason I haven't yet dipped into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, many people's favorite of the year so far. I'd almost always rather be playing a more action-based game. But after trying the demo for Flick Shot Rogues on a whim during the most recent Steam Next Fest, the game hasn't been far from my thoughts. The debut title from Butter By The Fish, a three-person studio in Germany, arrived on Steam this week. Despite

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A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 20:18:28

In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and rotating their keys, the ecosystem might re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen. After all, people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangero

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This Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Been Catastrophic

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-09-23 20:09:17

As businesses around the world have shifted their digital infrastructure over the last decade from self-hosted servers to the cloud, they’ve benefitted from the standardized, built-in security features of major cloud providers like Microsoft. But with so much riding on these systems, there can be potentially disastrous consequences at a massive scale if something goes wrong. Case in point: Security researcher Dirk-jan Mollema recently stumbled upon a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure’s

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NBA star Kevin Durant can't unlock his Coinbase bitcoin account. His agent is thrilled

cnbc.com Liz Napolitano 2025-09-23 23:43:01

Kevin Durant #35 of the Phoenix Suns looks on during the second half against the Houston Rockets at PHX Arena on March 30, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. NBA superstar Kevin Durant can't find the password to his Coinbase account, which holds bitcoin that he began buying in earnest when he was playing for the Golden State Warriors in 2016. His agent couldn't be happier. Durant's predicament has "only benefited" the hoopster, agent Rich Kleiman said. "We've yet to be able to track down his Coinbase

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Target-rich environment: Why Microsoft 365 has become the biggest risk

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-24 00:02:12

Microsoft 365 has become the central nervous system of modern business — and cybercriminals know it. Just as Windows became the primary target for attackers because of its market dominance in the 1990s and 2000s, Microsoft 365 now finds itself in the crosshairs for having "won" the email and collaboration war. With over 400 million paid Office 365 seats worldwide and countless organizations relying on its integrated suite of applications, Microsoft 365 represents the ultimate target-rich envir

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Can Police Take Your Home Security Videos? 3 Ways It's Legal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 23:00:00

Home security cameras and video doorbells provide many ways to protect privacy, from end-to-end encryption to the ability to use local video storage instead of storing on the cloud. But when the cops get involved, it's another story. Law enforcement has several options to take home security videos that you've recorded. That can include videos held in the cloud by your security company and even videos you may be keeping in a local hub that you own. It's important to know your rights, know when t

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Political Influencers Are Ramping Up Security—and Posting Through It

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-09-24 00:40:58

As news broke that conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot at an event on a college campus last week, Hasan Piker’s Twitch chat was spiraling. Messages flooded onto the streamer’s channel. “Disavow quickly and vehemently for your own safety,” one chatter urged. “Pleeeeeeaaaase don’t do public debates anymore,” begged another. Piker, one of the most prominent progressive creators online, was set to face Kirk in a live debate at Dartmouth University on September 25. Now, still on air with new

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Computing’s Top 30: Kelly Onu

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-24 04:00:50

In addition to her stellar work to ensure application and cloud security for clients across industries, Kelly Onu works to secure technology’s future by mentoring ambitious students and young professionals from all walks of life. Onu’s own experiences as a mentee helped her to sharpen her technical expertise, navigate challenges, and develop as a leader. Today, she pays those benefits forward through active involvement in organizations such as IEEE, Women in Security and Privacy, and the Inter

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PSA: The Starbucks app is broken, but here’s how to use it anyway

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-24 04:09:36

A slew of people are reporting that the Starbucks app is completely broken. With too-perfect irony, the thing that is breaking it is an app satisfaction survey … Multiple users are reporting that the app forces you to complete the survey before you can use the app to do anything radical like, oh, I don’t know, ordering a cup of coffee. The problem is that even after you have completed the survey, it still doesn’t let you in: it just loops back to the survey. Twitter user Ike found a workaround

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CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 21:53:08

"Stop — Think — Click"... ...is the basic recommendation for securely browsing the Internet and for securely reading emails. Users who have followed this recommendation in the past were less likely to have their computer infected or their computing account compromised. However, still too many users click on malicious web-links, and put their computer and account at risk.

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These Smoked Human Remains May be the Oldest Mummies Known to Science

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-24 04:13:53

Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the earliest evidence of artificial mummification known to science, pushing back the timeline for the burial ritual to far before the time of the ancient Egyptians. Hunter-gatherers in Southeast Asia who lived some 20,000 and 4,000 years ago buried their dead in tightly crouched or squatting positions. Not only that, but these communities also practiced a form of mummification that involved drying out the human remains over a fire, as research

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Dawn Capital’s Shamillah Bankiya breaks down the state of the Euro venture market

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-24 04:00:00

Dawn Capital’s latest partner, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped by Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions Americans have about the European startup world. Dawn Capital is a marquee firm in the UK with more than $2 billion in AUM, 34 exits, and 11 unicorns. Names in the portfolio consist of names including AI companies Collibra and Dataiku. It focuses on early-stage companies, backing them from seed to Series C. It’s currently investing from its $620 milli

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Your iPhone's Music App Gets a Handful of Upgrades With iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 07:00:03

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15 and the update brings call screening, new ringtones and lots of hidden features to your iPhone. The update also brings some new features to Apple Music ($11 a month) like a new crossfading feature called AutoMix and lyric translation. Apple Music has grown to be one of the largest music streaming platforms since it was released a decade ago. According to Statista, Apple Music had about 94 million paid subscribers as of June 2024. However, Spotify ($12 a month)

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10 of the Best Movies to Stream on Peacock

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 07:00:04

Peacock's movie library is solid. I say that as someone who regularly forgets to check out the NBC Universal-owned streaming service when I'm in the mood for a movie night. We get so used to tapping into the big dogs like Netflix and Disney Plus, and they are chock full of good stuff, but Peacock deserves its flowers, too. There's always something cool to watch on Peacock, no matter what genre you're looking for. Then there's the Universal part of the equation. Universal Pictures knows its way

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Are portable wind generators a viable alternative to solar power? My verdict after testing one at home

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-24 16:48:00

Shine Turbine Kit ZDNET's key takeaways The Shine Turbine kit is on sale for $279, while the Essentials Kit is on sale for $342. The kit includes everything you need to turn wind into electrical energy, and the turbine features a 12,000 mAh battery. There are limitations, which include the weight of the kit and the 40W of power it taps out at. View now at Shineturbine Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I cover a lot of solar generators here, and they are all the rage. I've

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Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey

news.ycombinator.com Connor Boyle 2025-09-24 15:28:40

11 September 2025 Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey by Connor Boyle tags: mathematicssoftware I’m planning to write a series of posts about fast Fourier transform algorithms. This first post covers the Cooley-Tukey algorithm, which is the original and most well-known FFT algorithm. The Discrete Fourier Transform If $x$ is a sequence of complex numbers with a length $\lvert x \rvert$ and a starting index of 0, then the discrete Fourier transform of $x$, \(\mathcal{F} \{ x \

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CircuitHub (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Research Engineers (UK/Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 15:33:07

About CircuitHub CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid , a factory-scale robotics platform designed to make small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab levels of precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production. The result? A 10x throughput improvement in one of the world's most foundational industries. We've raised $20M from top-tier investors, including Y Combinator and Google Ventures ,

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Sept. 18

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 09:25:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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AI is changing the IT recruitment game. Here's what you need to know now

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-09-24 18:00:26

Westend61/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Employers look in many places for qualified job candidates. AI is part of job placement, but many companies have outdated tech. Only 17% of companies have the right tools to identify IT talent. I regularly hear about people responding to hundreds of job ads and getting very few responses. Even more distressingly, I hear about attending a series of interviews and then being ghosted. In these

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A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 13:25:59

Welcome to the world of text adventures! Here, we dive into the art of creating interactive stories that immerse players in thrilling, choice-driven narratives. Whether you're a fellow developer, a fan of retro games, or just curious about text-based adventures, this channel has something for you. Join me as I share insights, tips, and updates on my latest text games. Get ready to shape worlds, solve mysteries, and experience stories where your choices lead the way. Let's bring adventures to lif

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Condor Technology to Fly "Cuzco" RISC-V CPU into the Datacenter

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Burt 2025-09-22 03:48:01

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and XPUs are saving money, but they are certainly gaining control and that is worth something. Arm made a push based on the power-efficient nature its architecture, and Nvidia has become a key player in AI with its powerful GPUs and now its “Grace” Arm server CPUs. A reinvigorated AMD has given system

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Hypervisor 101 in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 17:18:58

This is a day long course to quickly learn the inner working of hypervisors and techniques to write them for high-performance fuzzing. This course covers foundation of hardware-assisted virtualization technologies, such as VMCS/VMCB, guest-host world switches, EPT/NPT, as well as useful features and techniques such as exception interception for virtual machine introspection for fuzzing. The class is made up of lectures using the materials within this directory and hands-on exercises with sourc

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Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates: Here's What to Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 19:20:00

Microsoft is sunsetting Windows 10 support on Oct. 14, and stopping all updates to the OS. If you aren't able to update to Windows 11, you still have options. For $30 you can grab a year of extended-security updates. There is also a free option available, provided you're willing to enable cloud backup and connect it to your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accounting for just over 53% of ins

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Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet

NordVPN vs. Surfshark: See How These Sister Services Stack Up

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DACLab says it can remove CO2 using less electricity than many competitors

Flick Shot Rogues is the rare turn-based game that my brain is gelling with

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NBA star Kevin Durant can't unlock his Coinbase bitcoin account. His agent is thrilled

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CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

These Smoked Human Remains May be the Oldest Mummies Known to Science

Dawn Capital’s Shamillah Bankiya breaks down the state of the Euro venture market

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